SA Firefighter

Any more news? They granulate plastics and have a 4 hectare plastics store!!! Dangerous... Can be smelt at Lonsdale and Gawler!

You forgot Belair!

Cause they obviously have nothing better to do with their time and they need a boost in the bedroom?

Yeah he's got all the makings of a great fire fighter... maybe even could go for a SACFS paid job!

Ah different company to one i'm thinking of. I did a course with one and it felt just a week of sale pitch for the system hardware and software they were selling...

And they don't work over 150 feet... rang last week to see... kinda weak with a turbine over 80m

Just wondering cause when i drive up to the mines i've seen them training on the turbines... would be bitch of a rescue though.

You can't use helicopter to rescue of turbines... it was someones idea who really didn't have any idea!..

Yeah i saw some people working on the comms towers at mt lofty the other day... fairly cool.

I was driving down near lonsdale today and there was a training company with a logo like mfs doing training on the REALLY big tower... looked like fun

In the hills face zone, hills proper and country areas there are huge comms towers and silos.

Who is responsible for resucing people off them? Do SASES or SACFS have a team that is trained for work at that heights?

Drove up near the hills near Belair and saw the tower there... can any cfs or ses personnell work at that heights?? 

Who practises that type of rescue?

For the best prices call Fire Rescue Safety Australia in either Perth or Brisbane... so so much cheaper than anything local and they know all the different ones due to mines all having different ones... we bought the Drager HPS 6200 for work and they sourced a bracket for us... TBH in SA there only a select group of helmets, any after market stockists should know all the mounting options depending on use straight away without having to take your helmet to them...


the wonders of the internet to browse...

From a non fire fighters point of view... People tend to thing along the lines that a the SACFS will save their home or that sprinkler system will prepare them... It's a filtered arrogant thinking line. The Belair SACFS is starting to use their siren after intense pressure from local residents and MP's.

I have to agree with bittenyakka 100%, about the wishy, washiness that no clear policy. Yes its hard to define a clear line as a stay and go policy is the current policy... but.

Also Bill is right on with his comment about the arrogance of the populous. But common sense has to prevail on such days where the risk of fire is so high. If the polulation don't have the common sense to prepare their property and realise that on such days their is a risk of fire... then well SACFS, CFA, RFS etc shouldn't be held responsible or blamed for deaths.

Not wanting to be derogatory or insulting, but... the majority of rural fire fighting services are voluntary, their members are voluntary and the majority of officers have risen from the voluntary ranks. Thus i do not see as a member of the fire industry and a citizen that if their are deaths that the SACFS should be held responsible. If people build homes in the middle of the scrub, they're asking for some serious trouble.

Phone systems don't particulary work. I live in Unley and i have shite coverage and my girlfriend lives in strathalbyn and she has virtually no coverage, unless a phone system is sat to sat phone... there will always be holes big enough to drive a pumper through. Sirens will only work if they are embraced by the locals. Main problem with Belair siren is that the majority of the peole living there will complain about the siren...

We wonder ourselves cause we boost to higher pressures, and to higher flows for longer time and they have never failed. We use them on booster suction, training hose, and we pressure test the hoses quarterly to stupid pressures and they've never failed... and to be honest they're abused cause they get bashed into metal boxes, left in the sun.

You know who the supplier is... go look at them, the SACFS should feel lucky that the cfs isn't just supplying them with the same equipment but looking around for improvements in equipment ie non conductive halligan tools, acetal couplings, improvement PPE.

The other to put this is... we in my company have the authority to buy what ever we want in respects to equipment. Acetal isn't the cheapest, but we still buy it, hell i got a pallet load of it in front of me at the moment. It isn't cheap chinese crap, its made in south Australia.

Moderators i know i ain't suppose to do this but for the benefit of a south Australian company and the people on here... http://www.hydroflo.com.au/products/fittings.html And Bill they're right down the road from you... go to talk to him and see why we like them so much.

Like most new things they take awhile for people to stop being afraid of them. The SAMFS are looking at fazing in a few on trucks for evaluation and with the SACFS getting the adaptors from storz to safb its gonna become a staple on the truck...

yeah we thought was a bit odd, but exceeded the metal couplings so we like them. Will be good to see how they go in the SACFS. We purchased the same metal couplings from a company in adelaide and we also bought the acetal (the plastic ones) and we cant tell the difference other than the acetal are lighter and have survived being dropped in a diesel fire... (slipped out of apprentices hand)

You mean the black couplings?

Do people in the CFS wanna do walk throughs like the local mfs units do in town of all their areas to sites at all? Cause im sure the industry would be willing... even the company i work for even though they're multi-national would probs be willing to do walkthroughs. If not for the systems then to check what loads eg flammable and explosive so you know where they are in emergency...?